Posted on 10/26/2016 9:49:02 AM PDT by Lorianne
Last week, the U.S. State Department acknowledged that al-Qaeda-linked terror group Jabhat al-Nusra is not a “priority” for the United States’ efforts in Syria.
One might ask, then: if al-Qaeda in Syria is not a priority for the war on terror, what is?
State Department spokesman John Kirby provided some useful insight into this dilemma, stating:
“The only thing that stands between where we are now and a permanent and enduring ceasefire in Syria is Bashar al-Assad and his supporters. We recognize Al-Nusra as a spoiler, we have concerns about co-mingling, I’ve talked about this ad nauseam.”
Largely missing from the American narrative of the Syrian conflict is that al-Nusra is shelling residential areas in Aleppo, where the government holds control of the majority of Aleppo’s citizens. In other parts of the world, these al-Qaeda-linked extremists are seen as the enemy, whereas in Syria, Western media will often refer to them as mere “rebel” groups.
The United States first officially used the term “war on terror” on September 20, 2011, to refer to the military campaigns that followed the attacks of September 11. The stated aim at the time was to defeat Islamic-linked terrorist organizations and dismantle regimes the U.S. government accused of supporting terrorism.
In 2013, Obama stated:
“We must define our effort not as a boundless ‘Global War on Terror,’ but rather as a series of persistent, targeted efforts to dismantle specific networks of violent extremists that threaten America.”
The fact that a terror group — one linked to the organization that allegedly launched an act of war against the United States on American soil — is not a priority of the United States State Department should tell you something about how farcical and ineffective the war on terror actually is.
This change in rhetoric, which is ultimately designed to push ulterior economic agendas in the Middle East, is an insult to the thousands of soldiers who sacrificed their lives under the false pretense that they were going to protect their families from al-Qaeda-linked terrorists.
Defeating terrorists is not what the Obama/Clinton policy is about.
Removing Assad for the Saudis is so they can build a pipeline is the goal.
is that why they are arming AQ and ISIS?
You are absolutely correct.
Qatar and Saudi Arabia want a pipeline to go through Syria to supply the European energy market with an alternative to Russian gas and oil.
Qatar and Saudis are using our intelligence agencies and military to violently overthrow Syrian leader Assad, and could give careless that Thousands of Christians are murdered, and Millions displaced by ISIS.
We squarely own the ISIS horror because we continue to let Obama, Hillary, and our military: create, train, fund and supply ISIS.
Our US Special Forces are sick of being forced to train ISIS sympathizing Syrian / Iraqi “rebels”.
It’s a disgrace what we’re doing to our soldiers and people of that region.
All for creative destruction disruption.
US Special Forces sabotage White House policy gone disastrously wrong with covert ops in Syria
Jack Murphy | 09.14.2016
“Nobody believes in it. You’re like, ‘F*** this,’” a former Green Beret says of America’s covert and clandestine programs to train and arm Syrian militias. “Everyone on the ground knows they are jihadis. No one on the ground believes in this mission or this effort, and they know they are just training the next generation of jihadis, so they are sabotaging it by saying, ‘F*** it, who cares?’”
“I don’t want to be responsible for Nusra guys saying they were trained by Americans,” the Green Beret added. A second Special Forces soldier commented that one Syrian militia they had trained recently crossed the border from Jordan on what had been pitched as a large-scale shaping operation that would change the course of the war. Watching the battle on a monitor while a drone flew overhead, “We literally watched them, with 30 guys in their force, run away from three or four ISIS guys.”
ISIS was going to be the Oligarchy’s new Saddam. Same ole henchman. Same old torture tactics.
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